Supporters of Awami League-backed mayoral and councilor candidates stuffed ballot boxes indiscriminately driving out poling agents of BNP-backed candidates from a polling booth at Kamalapur Sher-e Bangla Railway High School Centre-1 today.

AL-backed Dhaka South City Corporation mayor candidate Sayeed Khokon and a number of councillors allegedly hire rickshaws to give voters a free ride to the voting centres.

Ruling party men not only intimidated the BNP activists before and during the city corporation elections, but also used various intimidation tactics on the press wherever they found the journalists covering irregularities at the polling centres.

Mayor aspirants Abdul Awal Mintoo and Nasir Uddin Ahmed Pintu appeal to the Dhaka divisional commissioner’s office for validating their nominations for the upcoming Dhaka north and south city corporation elections.

A mayor aspirant in Dhaka alleges that PM Sheikh Hasina acted against level-playing field in the upcoming city corporation polls by introducing ruling Awami League-backed mayor aspirants

Haji Mohammad Salim is likely to step aside from mayoral race in the upcoming Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) elections upon advice from the Awami League high command.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad sacks his special adviser Bobby Hajjaj after the latter announced his own candidacy for the Dhaka City Corporation polls